The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.
NOVALISGenius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
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Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?
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Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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Play is experimenting with chance.
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Character is perfectly educated will.
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Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.
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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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